I'll never apologize for my love of Tears for Fears.

And whenever you can drink a shitload of beer, try the new Rising Moon spring ale. Mighty tasty.
Ana | Homepage | 04.22.08 - 3:48 pm | #

Ana, good point about not apologizing. But I'm a guy. No real excuse.
AJS | 04.22.08 - 3:52 pm | #

I can't think of Hip to Be Square any more without thinking of American Psycho. The chapter on Huey Lewis and the News is just too damned good.

Hi, John... FYI, I came here from:
http://www.gloriousnoise.com/ sho...top_25_of_1.php
Joshua | 04.22.08 - 7:00 pm | #

Ok, so this was a GREAT walk down memory lane. Thank you for doing the work. It is awsome. I was a huge Huey Lewis fan growing up. infact my first email addy was hip2bsquar@yahoo.com
I still use it even.

I was a big Duran Duran fan too. I thought they were far ahead of their time.. however the whole solo thing... well you know.

Great post man..
Michael Tragic | Homepage | 04.22.08 - 8:50 pm | #

Jay-zus.

Luckily some of us had found Life's Rich Pageant and The Queen is Dead.
TMC | Homepage | 04.22.08 - 9:23 pm | #

Did you see ATP NY was just announced? http://www.atpfestival.com/event.../events/atp-ny/
Ben | Homepage | 04.22.08 - 10:33 pm | #

In my homeland it's Falco! Falco! Falco! everywhere at the moment. Books, Films, Albums, "Lost Songs" etc. etc.

We do celebrate our dead *a lot* around here.
isabella | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 4:06 am | #

I must be psychic... all day I had Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time" stuck in my head, which is odd considering it has been years since I last heard it. And low and behold, it is here on my favorite blog.
Allison | 04.24.08 - 12:59 am | #

Sometimes I like to change the lyric to "My girl wants to potty all the time." It's fun!
AJS | 04.24.08 - 4:29 pm | #

Thanks for linking to that video for "Take It Easy." It has to have been 20 years since I've seen it. I still dust off the only 45 of it and play because I don't care if it makes my totally un-hip but that's a sweet song. I'll be singing that in my office all day today.
Jason | Homepage | 04.25.08 - 10:40 am | #

Was someone actin superior up there?

Pshaw.

Anyway, I loved "Mothers Talk". For a while it would play on MTV right before I'd walk to school. Gave the morning a fun start. "So Red The Rose" got really....depressing with time. Not in terms of being bad (though it might be) they're just really dismal songs, barring "Election Day" which I do still like.
Jay | Homepage | 05.04.08 - 5:50 pm | #

this list explains a lot...ouch.
rockcodger | 06.22.08 - 12:55 pm | #